Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked.
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Michael Caine became an actor because all the prettiest girls at his school were in drama class.
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Bill Murray was arrested in 1970 for trying to smuggle 10lbs of Marijuana during his 20th Birthday.
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Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.
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Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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When he was 7, Vin Diesel and some friends broke into a New York theater with intentions to vandalize it. Instead of calling the police, the theater’s artistic director handed them scripts and offered them parts in the upcoming show. This became Diesel’s first acting role.
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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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